New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (APPEAL AND REVIEW) ACT 2001 - SECT 114A

114A Information about mercy petitions

(1) The publication or disclosure by or on behalf of the Attorney General of information relating to a mercy petition is not a contravention of the following--

(a) the Criminal Records Act 1991 ,

(b) the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 ,

(c) the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 ,

(d) any other Act.

(2) In this section,
"mercy petition" includes--

(a) a petition for a review of a conviction or sentence, or for the exercise of the Governor's pardoning power, referred to in Division 2 of Part 7,

(b) any other petition for the exercise of the prerogative of mercy.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010 .